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title: OpenTelemetry
sidebarTitle: Overview
description: Agno supports observability through OpenTelemetry, integrating seamlessly with popular tracing and monitoring platforms.
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Observability helps us understand, debug, and improve AI agents. Agno supports observability through [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/), integrating seamlessly with popular tracing and monitoring platforms.

## Key Benefits
- **Trace**: Visualize and analyze agent execution flows.
- **Monitor**: Track performance, errors, and usage.
- **Debug**: Quickly identify and resolve issues.

## OpenTelemetry Support

Agno offers first-class support for OpenTelemetry, the industry standard for distributed tracing and observability.
- **Auto-Instrumentation**: Automatically instrument your agents and tools.
- **Flexible Export**: Send traces to any OpenTelemetry-compatible backend.
- **Custom Tracing**: Extend or customize tracing as needed.

<Note>
OpenTelemetry-compatible backends including Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, Langsmith, Langtrace, Logfire, Maxim, OpenLIT, and Weave are supported by Agno out of the box.
</Note>

## Developer Resources
- [Cookbooks](https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/tree/main/cookbook/integrations/observability)